For the past eight years, I have volunteered as a poll worker in west Winter Park. I love Election Day. The precinct is in a historically African American neighborhood, and counts many elderly residents who no doubt remember back to 1951, when Central...

Florida struggles with a middling reputation when it comes to educational outcomes. Its eighth-grade math and reading scores are slightly below average, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The state's graduation rate — with almost 78 percent of...

For women in politics, this is a year for the record books. Hundreds of women are running for office across the country. Carly Fiorina put up a spirited challenge for the GOP presidential nomination, and Hillary Clinton is all but official as the...

UPDATED: On the Sunday morning programs this weekend:
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., reflects on his run for the presidency on CNN's "State of the Union" at 9 a.m. and noon. It is a special edition of the program.
Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie...

Losing money and tapped out of state incentives, Sanford-Burnham — a centerpiece of Orlando's Medical City — began exploring strategies to leave Central Florida as early as last fall.
Lured with more than $300 million to build an east-coast center in...

UPDATED: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won the New York primary decisively, but they'll leave the Sunday morning talk shows to other candidates and surrogates. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will be on four shows, and Gov. John Kasich,...

A paradox of our time concerns productivity. We are awash in transformative technologies — smartphones, tablets, big data — and yet the growth in labor productivity, which should benefit from all the technology, is dismal. This matters. Productivity is...

UPDATED: The Sunday morning guest lists features presidential candidate Donald Trump on several programs. CBS made a late addition on Saturday: Democratic presidential candidate will join "Face the Nation." The lineup:
Clinton and House Speaker...

REVISED AGAIN: The Paris attacks prompted late revisions to the Sunday morning guest list. But Florida will be well represented on the Sunday morning programs this weekend by former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio. The Sunday morning lineup:
...

There is no tooth fairy. Republicans and Democrats, take note.
Taxes will surely continue to play a big role in the presidential campaign. The Republicans contend that cutting rates will do the trick; the pickup in economic growth will generate...

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UPDATED: Secretary of State John Kerry leads the Sunday guest list. Kerry will discuss the Iran deal on five programs: CBS' "Face the Nation," ABC's "This Week," NBC's "Meet the Press," CNN's "State of the Union"...

UPDATED: The Supreme Court's decision on gay marriage will dominate the Sunday morning shows. The lineup:
ABC's "This Week" talks to Jim Obergefell, lead plaintiff in the gay marriage case, at 10 a.m. on WFTV-Channel 9. Other guests are two...

When Richard Daley shopped his big data company Pentaho to investors, some venture capitalists wanted him to move the firm to Silicon Valley.
But Daley, a 53-year-old lifelong Floridian, rejected those calls.
"They were very specific saying, 'We...

Though income inequality has worsened in the past 40 years, most impoverished Americans would not be terribly concerned, provided their children had an even chance of moving from the bottom to the top of the income ladder.
The bad news is that they...

First it was this: Orlando beat New York City as the first city to top 50 million visitors. And now this: Florida is bigger than New York.Census figures released Tuesday show Florida passed New York as the nation's third largest state with an estimated...

We all want to be happy, don't we? Well, if you're dissatisfied, frustrated or downright miserable, cheer up. There's apparently a cure for you. Even better, it will materialize automatically. Just sit and wait; the very anticipation of its arrival...